Lincoln family

General Benjamin Lincoln (1733-1810) had three sons: Benjamin (1756-1788), Theodore (1763-1852), and Martin (1769-1837). Theodore Lincoln graduated from Harvard University in 1785; he later practiced law in Dennysville, Maine, and was elected to the Massachusetts State Senate. He and his wife, Hannah Mayhew, had eight children: Theodore (b. 1800), Hannah (b. 1801), Benjamin (1802-1835), Mary (b. 1804), Bela (b. 1805), Sarah (b. 1807), Edmund (b. 1809), and Thomas (b. 1812). Benjamin Lincoln graduated from Bowdoin College in 1822 and studied medicine for five years before practicing in Boston, Massachusetts, and Burlington, Vermont. He also lectured in medicine for the University of Vermont and the University of Maryland. He returned home to Dennysville before his death on February 26, 1835.

Thomas Lincoln had two children with his first wife, Emma Johnson: Edith (b. 1855) and Arthur (b. 1856), who attended Bowdoin College in the 1870s and later became a doctor. Thomas Lincoln and his second wife, Mary Eastman, had one son, Edmund (b. 1870).

From the guide to the Lincoln family correspondence, 1800-1944, 1818-1883, (William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan)